His Holiness

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Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward set the standard for modern investigative journalism with their Pulitzer Prize-winning Watergate reporting for the Washington Post and in their books Ali the President's Men and The Final Days. Now, with His Holiness, a book of rare importance, Bernstein and Marco Politi, the dean of Vatican journalists, turn their attention to the great drama of our time, the fali of communism, unlocking the remarkable hidden his-tory of one of the dominant figures of the twentieth century and his impact on our era. How many divi-sions has the pope? Stalin asked contemptuously. Yet in the end it was Popé John Paul II who held the key to destroying the Soviet empire. Startiing Politburo minutes obtained by Bernstein and Politi show the Kremlin elders struggling in vain to overcome his alarming power and influence in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, in Washington, Ronald Reagan secretly made the Vatican and John Paul II his principal ally and covertly dispatched CIA... Tovább

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Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward set the standard for modern investigative journalism with their Pulitzer Prize-winning Watergate reporting for the Washington Post and in their books Ali the President's Men and The Final Days. Now, with His Holiness, a book of rare importance, Bernstein and Marco Politi, the dean of Vatican journalists, turn their attention to the great drama of our time, the fali of communism, unlocking the remarkable hidden his-tory of one of the dominant figures of the twentieth century and his impact on our era. How many divi-sions has the pope? Stalin asked contemptuously. Yet in the end it was Popé John Paul II who held the key to destroying the Soviet empire. Startiing Politburo minutes obtained by Bernstein and Politi show the Kremlin elders struggling in vain to overcome his alarming power and influence in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, in Washington, Ronald Reagan secretly made the Vatican and John Paul II his principal ally and covertly dispatched CIA Director William Casey to meet regularly with the pope.
John Paul II became the inspiration and the protec-tor of Solidarity—a non-Communist workers' move-ment in the heart of the Communist world—and came to influence his time much as Churchill and Roosevelt did theirs. With Reagan, he fashioned a Holy Alliance against the Communists that kept Solidarity alive underground after Moscow seemed to succeed in crushing it. His Holiness telis how, shortly after both John Paul and Reagan were shot by would-be assassins, they met in Romé and committed the vast resources of two superpowers—one spiritual and the other strategic —to reversing the divisions of Yalta and hastening the demise of communism. Both believed they were guided by Providence.
His Holiness is at once compelling journalism, drama, history, and biography. John Paul II, elected as the first non-kalian pope in five hundred years, readily used his global pulpit to speak out on behalf of humán rights and those who were ignored by other world lead-ers—whether politically or economically oppressed, whether in the Communist or non-Communist world.
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